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A Crimean Winter of Discontent

The Crimean War Letters of William John Rous

Author: Ian Fletcher

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 133pp. 25cm by 18cm.

ISBN: 9781399062138

Weight: 589g

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Armies of Ancient Greece Circa 500 to 338 BC

Conflict was rife among the Greeks of the Classical period, including some of the most famous wars and battles of the whole ancient period, such as the defeat of the Persians at Marathon, the Spartans' heroic last stand at Thermopylae, the gruelling Pelopponesian War and the epic March of the Ten Thousand.

Author: Gabriele Esposito

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 18cm by 25.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526751898

Weight: 845g

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Armies of Ancient Italy 753 - 218 BC.

From the foundation of Rome to the start of the Second Punic War,

Author: Gabriele Esposito.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 182pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN 9781526751850

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Armies of Plantagenet England, 1135-1337

The ascent of the Plantagenets to the English throne in 1154 led to the beginning of a new historical phase in the British Isles, which was marked by numerous wars that were fought between the Kingdom of England and the 'Celtic nations' of Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

Author: Gabriele Esposito.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 171pp. 17.5x25x1.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399008358

Weight: 700g.

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Armies of the Crimean War, 1853 1856

History, Organization and Equipment of the British, French, Turkish, Piedmontese and Russian forces.

Author: Gabriele Esposito

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 197pp. 17.5cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781399089852

Weight: 792g

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Armies of the Italian Risorgimento

The Italian Risorgimento was the political process that led to the unification of the Italian peninsula into a single kingdom after three bloody wars fought between Piedmont and Austria.

Author: Gabriele Esposito

Publisher: Mushroom Model Publications

Paperback. 180pp. 21cm by 29.5cm.

ISBN: 9788366549951

Weight: 432g

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Armies of the Roman Republic 264-30 BC

This period saw conflicts with Carthage and Gaul plus the Helenistic Successor states. These wars, and others, made the Romans masters of all Western Europe and the whole Mediterranean basin, though failure against the Parthians limited their ambitions in the East.

Author: Gabriele Esposito

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 178pp. 17.5cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781399094023

Weight: 752g

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Armies of the Thracians & Dacians 500 BC - AD 150.

History, organization & equipment.

Author: Gabriele Esposito.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 192pp. 17cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526772749

Weight: 833

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Army of the Early Roman Empire 30 BC-AD 180, The

The legionary soldier of the early Empire period, with his distinctive segmented armour, is one of the images most closely associated by popular imagination with ancient Rome.

Author: Gabriele Esposito

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 160pp. 17cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781526787392

Weight: 750g

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Army of the Roman Republic, The

From the Regal Period to the Army of Julius Caesar. From the moment its last king was expelled (traditionally in 753) the Roman republic had to fight for its very survival.

Author: Michael M. Sage

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 352pp. 15.5cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399020244

Weight: 490g

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Artillery of the Napoleonic Wars: A Dictionary

A Concise Dictionary, 1792-1815

Author: Kevin F Kiley

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 304pp. 16.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781848329539

Weight: 1.554kg

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Augustus at War: The Struggle for the Pax Augusta

A superb analysis of the military power that underpinned Augustus' rise to power, his conquests, and his ability to sustain his rule. Powell's achievement is to demonstrate just how much Augustus deserved his name of Imperator.

Author: Lindsay Powell

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 452pp. 15.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399023368

Weight: 678g

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Badon and the Early Wars for Wessex - Paperback

David Cooper’s book reappraises the evidence regarding the early battles for Wessex territory. It charts the sequence of battles from the c. AD 500 siege of Badon Hill, in which the Britons defeated the first Saxon attempt to gain a foothold in Wessex territory, to Langport in 710, which consolidated King Ine's position and pushed the Britons westwards.

Author: David Cooper

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 260pp. 15.5x23.3x2cm.

ISBN: 9781399020862

Weight: 450g.

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Battle of Actium 31 BC, The

On a bright September day, the naval forces of Octavian clashed with those of Antony and Cleopatra off the coast of western Greece.

Author: Lee Fratantuono

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 232pp. 15.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399020893

Weight: 380g

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Battle of the Catalaunian Fields AD451, The

Flavius Aetius, Attila the Hun and the Transformation of Gaul.

Author: Evan Michael Schultheis

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 168pp. 17cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526745651

Weight: 640g

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Battle of Dyrrhachium, The

In 49 BC the Roman Republic collapsed once more into bloody civil war. At the heart of this war lay the two greatest living Roman commanders, and former allies, Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar, each having built their own factions within the Roman oligarchy and refusing to compromise.

Author: Gareth C Sampson.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 226pp. 16x24x2.3cm.

ISBN: 9781526793584

Weight: 550g.

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Battles of the Wars of the Roses

Written with the most up-to-date archaeological and documentary research, and including many images of the main protagonists, battle sites, maps and genealogical charts, this is a fascinating new insight into the Wars of the Roses.

Author: David Cohen

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 208pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399083102

Weight: 694g

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Britain in the Age of Arthur: A Military History

King Arthur is one of the most controversial topics of early British history. Are the legends based on a real historical figure or pure mythological invention?

Author: Ilkka Syvanne

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 16.3cm by 23.6cm.

ISBN: 9781473895201

Weight: 821g

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Bronze Age Military Equipment

This book is a fascinating discussion of the development of the military equipment of the earliest organized armies.

Author: Dan Howard

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 192pp. 15.5cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399023375

Weight: 326g

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Caracalla: A Military Biography

Caracalla has one of the worst reputations of any Roman Emperor. Many ancient historians were very hostile and Edward Gibbon later dubbed him the common enemy of mankind. Yet his reign was considered by at least one Roman author to be the apogee of the Roman Empire.

Author: Ilkka Syvänne

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 368pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399074827

Weight: 635g

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Castle To Fortress

Across western Europe the long tradition of castle-building took on its most sophisticated form in the later medieval period and then, in response to the development of gunpowder weapons, it underwent a fundamental change – from castle to fortress. This, the second volume of a highly illustrated new study of medieval fortification, gives a fascinating insight into the last great age of castles and the centuries of violence and conflict they were part of.

Author: J.E. Kaufmann & H.W Kaufmann

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 18cm by 25.5cm.

ISBN 9781526736871

Weight. 0.822Kg

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Civil War in Wales, The: The Scouring of the Nation

The Civil Wars of the seventeenth century had a devastating effect upon Wales and the Marches, stripping the country of its human resources and ruining whole communities.

Author: Terry John

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 16.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399004763

Weight: 568g

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Conquerors of the Roman Empire: The Vandals

Part of: Conquerors of the Roman Empire (3 books).

Author: Simon MacDowall

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 208pp. 16.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399020848

Weight: 365g

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Crimean War, The - Then and Now

Dr David Jones, with the help of local guides, was able to identify and photograph every important location related to one of the nineteenth century's most deadliest conflicts.

Author: Dr David R Jones

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 18cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781848324916

Weight: 1.18kg

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Crisis of Rome, The.

The Jugurthine & Northern Wars & the rise of Marius.

Author: Gareth C Sampson.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Paperback.288 pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781526781772

Weight: 484

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Crusades in 100 Objects,The.

For half a millennium, throughout almost the entire medieval period, the Catholic church sanctioned military campaigns against what it perceived as its enemies. The rise of Islam and its spread across large parts of the Middle East, Asia, North Africa and even the peripheries of Europe, saw Muslim warriors seize the Holy Land, occupy Jerusalem and threaten Constantinople.

Author: James Waterson

Publisher: Frontline Books

Hardback. 251pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN 9781526795304

Weight. 838g

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English Civil War, The: Fact and Fiction

An unfussy yet accurate history, each chapter presents a controversy in itself and sets about dispelling commonly held myths about the Civil War.

Author: James Hobson

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 135pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781526734877

Weight: 374g

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Forts and Roman Strategy

Paul Coby here proposes a new system for the recording and mapping of Roman forts and fortifications that integrates all the data, including size, dating and identification of occupying units. Application of these methods allows analysis that brings new insights into the placement of these forts, the units garrisoning them and the strategy of conquest and defence they underpinned.

Author: Paul Coby.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 257pp. 17.5x25x2cm.

ISBN: 9781526772107

Weight: 1kg.

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French Invasions of Britain and Ireland, 1797-1798

The Revolutionaries and Spies who Sought to Topple the Government of King George.

Author: Paul L Dawson

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 250pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399068086

Weight: 510g

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Great Battles of the Classical Greek World

This book presents a selection of eighteen land battles and sieges that span the Classical Greek period, from the Persian invasions to the eclipse of the traditional hoplite heavy infantry at the hands of the Macedonians.

Author: Owen Rees

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 304pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399077088

Weight: 484g

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Gunner at Large.

Any readers of Wood's fascinating diary with a modest knowledge of the times will fully agree with Dalrymple in his 'Military essay' of 1761 that “of all the various branches of our profession none hath made greater progress in it than the Royal Artillery”.

Author: Rex Whitworth.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Paperback. 162pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399016056

Weight: 348

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Hellenistic Naval Warfare and Warships 326-30 BC

War at Sea from Alexander to Actium.

Author: Michael Paul Pitassi

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 272pp. 18cm by 25.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399097604

Weight: 994g

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Julius Caesar in Egypt

Cleopatra and the War in Alexandria

Author: Philip Matyszak

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 176pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399097369

Weight: 454g

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Julius Caesar's Civil War

Tactics, Strategies and Logistics

Author: Julian Romane

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 310pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399089425

Weight: 684g

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Landscapes of the Norman Conquest

Author: Trevor Rowley

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526724281

Weight: 974g

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Last Cavalry Sword, The

An Illustrated History of the Twilight Years of Cavalry Swords.

Author: C Anthony Burke

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 192pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781399081283

Weight: 549g

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Life In Napoleon's Army

The Graphic Memoirs of Captain Elzear Blaze (Napoleonic Library).

Author: Elzear Blaze

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 216pp. 15.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399019705

Weight: 354g

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Medieval Crossbow, The

The crossbow is an iconic weapon of the Middle Ages and, alongside the longbow, one of the most effective ranged weapons of the pre-gunpowder era.

Author: Dr Stuart Ellis-Gorman.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 208pp. 16x24x2cm.

ISBN: 9781526789532

Weight: 750g.

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Memoirs of a French Napoleonic Officer

Jean-Baptiste Barres, Chasseur of the Imperial Guard (Napoleonic Library).

Author: Jean-Baptiste Barres

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 224pp. 14cm by 20cm.

ISBN: 9781399077231

Weight: 309g

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Men of Wellington’s Light Division, The

Unpublished Memoirs from the 43rd Light Infantry in the Peninsular War.

Author: Gareth Glkover, Robert Burnham

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399099080

Weight: 484g

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Napoleon's Cavalry, Artillery and Technical Corps 1799-1815

All are beautifully illustrated by the many colour plates in this book, and their organization, equipment and tactics described.

Author: Gabriele Esposito

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 168pp. 17.5cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781399089807

Weight: 984g

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Napoleon's Imperial Guard.

A detailed analysis of the organization, uniforms and weapons of the French Imperial Guard created by Napoleon I.

Author: Gabriele Esposito.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 148pp. 17cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781526786715

Weight: 658

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Napoleon's Peninsular War

The French Experience of the War in Spain from Vimeiro to Corunna, 1808-1809.

Author: Paul L Dawson

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 336pp. 15.9cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526754097

Weight: 711g

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Redcoats of Wellington's Light Division in the Peninsular War, The

Unpublished and Rare Memoirs of the 52nd Regiment of Foot.

Author: Gareth Glover

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 16.5cm by 24.8cm.

ISBN: 9781399084963

Weight: 610g

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Roman Conquests: Gaul

Ever since their sack of Rome in the early fourth century BC, the tribes of Gauls were among the Roman Republic's most feared and respected foes. This book describes how Roman armies eventually carried war into their enemies' homelands and brought them into their expanding empire.

Author: Michael Sage

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 208pp. 16.5cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399077323

Weight: 385g

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Roman Empire at War

A Compendium of Battles from 31 B.C. to A.D. 565.

Author: Don Taylor

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 224pp. 15.5cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399085205

Weight: 361g

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Roman Warriors: The Paintings of Graham Sumner

Sumner’s beautiful colour reconstructions of Ancient Roman warriors over time are complemented expertly with informative, enlightening text by eminent historian and author Simon Elliott.

Author: Graham Sumner, Simon Elliott, Adrian Goldsworthy

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 208pp. 23.5cm by 30.5cm.

ISBN: 9781784387198

Weight: 1.5kg

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Sharpshooter in the Crimea

The Letters of the Captain Gerald Goodlake VC 1854-56.

Author: Michael Springman

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 240pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399074483

Weight: 364g

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Siege Warfare during the Hundred Years War

Once More unto the Breach.

Author: Peter Hoskins

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 256pp. 15.5cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399074766

Weight: 444g

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Storm of Spears, A.

The backbone of classical Greek armies was the phalanx of heavily armoured spearmen, or hoplites. These were the soldiers that defied the might of Persia at Marathon, Thermopylae and Plataea and, more often, fought each other in the countless battles of the Greek city-states. For around two centuries they were the dominant soldiers of the Classical world, in great demand as mercenaries throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East.

Author: Christopher Matthew

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 314pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781399013468

Weight. 0.589Kg

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Surrender of Napoleon, The

The Capture of the Emperor After Waterloo

Author: Frederick Lewis Maitland

Publisher: Fonthill

Paperback. 142pp. 15.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781781551769

Weight: 319g

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Sword of Scotland.

The dramatic story of Scotland's military heritage throughout the ages right up to the present day.

Author: Anthony Leask.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Paperback. 224pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781526796950

Weight: 460

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Talavera Campaign 1809, The

Peninsular War Battlefield Companion

Author: Tim Saunders

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 272pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399040037

Weight: 763g

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The Napoleonic Wars - The Compact Guide

Author: Richard Holmes

Publisher: Welbeck

Paperback. 144pp. 13cm by 20cm.

ISBN: 9780233005942

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The Nisibis War: The Defence of the Roman East, AD 337-363

The war of 337-363 (which the author dubs the Nisibis War), was an exception to the traditional Roman reliance on a strategic offensive to bring about a decisive battle.

Author: John S Harrel

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 288pp. 15.7cm by 23.2cm.

ISBN: 9781526782069

Weight: 418g

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Thirteen Roman Defeats

The chosen battles span the centuries, from the disastrous battle against invading Celts at the Allia River in (387 or 386 BC) to the naval defeat by the Vandals off Cap Bon in AD 468.

Author: Ian Hughes

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 240pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526726674

Weight: 584g

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Walking Waterloo

Presenting the experience of the soldiers who took part in the battle in the most graphic and direct way possible - through their own words.

Author: Charles J. Esdaile

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 320pp. 14cm by 22cm.

ISBN: 9781526740786

Weight: 570g

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Warriors of the Ancient Greek World

This in-depth visual guide, Warriors of the Ancient Greek World, boasts over 140 lavishly detailed photographed and illustrated recreations of the warrior panoplies of the fifth and fourth centuries BC.

Author: Kevin L Giles

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 72pp. 21.6cm by 28cm.

ISBN: 9781526778765

Weight: 681g

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Wars of the Roses